Give Lamb’s Players Theatre a glance, and it might seem the performance company (San Diego County’s third-largest) is doing everything in twos these days.

Producing artistic director Robert Smyth and associate artistic director Deborah Gilmour Smyth, a married pair, are the dual directing team on the season-opening show, “An Inspector Calls,” which begins its run this week.

The theater also is doubling down on its two spaces: As “Inspector” gets ready to debut at the Lamb’s home base in Coronado, Gilmour Smyth has been crossing San Diego Bay to direct “Pump Boys and Dinettes” at the company’s Horton Grand Theatre in downtown San Diego. (That show began its run last week.)

The pattern breaks down a bit when it comes to the plays. This will be the second time Lamb’s has staged “An Inspector Calls” — the first was in 1989 at the theater’s long-ago home in National City. But it’s the third go-round for “Pump Boys,” produced in both 1994 and 2005.

This is one company that likes to build on its success (last year, Lamb’s revived a successful staging of “Joyful Noise” from a decade earlier — and then put it up again in January).

That impulse to revisit seems to tie right in with the ideas behind J.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls,” the mystery-laced 1945 drama that has drawn renewed interest over the past decade or two. The play is often interpreted as a critique of class attitudes, but Robert Smyth notes that Priestley also was “so fascinated with time, and the various aspects of time” — particularly with the theories stemming from the work of Albert Einstein.

Speaking of time: Lamb’s has set the work in 1910, exactly 100 years ago — a prism for emphasizing how that period, which sounds so long ago, was not that different from today in some respects.

The setting is much more contemporary in “Pump Boys,” the durable, rockabilly-infused revue that first hit Broadway in 1982. In that show, centered on the attendants and waitresses at a Southern road stop, the performers are also the musicians, which Gilmour Smyth says has been both the challenge and the fun of putting it all together.

“We’ve done several of these musicals where the cast is the band,” she says, “and it’s really hard to find your cast sometimes. They’re not just playing guitar, they’re playing really good guitar.

“(But) it’s everyone’s favorite feel-good musical. It’s sexy, it’s got real heart, and it’s about family — that feeling of an extended family, created out of work. It’s a nice piece of pie.”

Good enough for a third helping.

COMING UP

DRAMA ON THE ISLAND

A look at what Lamb’s Players has in store for its Coronado resident theater after “An Inspector Calls” opens the season this week:

“The Rivalry”

April 2 to May 16

Norman Corwin’s 1959 drama, revived off-Broadway last year, chronicles the legendary debates between Abraham Lincoln and his election foe, Stephen Douglas. Their clashes over the morality of slavery came 150 years before another Illinois politician would be chosen as the nation’s first black president.

“Harvey”

June 4 to July 18

Mary Chase’s comedy about a man and his giant bunny buddy is forever identified with the Jimmy Stewart movie, but the play was also a Pulitzer-winner and has proved to have legs (fuzzy white ones, presumably) onstage.

“miX tape: a musical journey through the ’80s”

Aug. 6 to Sept. 19

We don’t remember the ’80s being lowercase, exactly (That big hair! Those giant synthesizers!), but Lamb’s ensemble members Jon Lorenz and Colleen Kollar Smith promise to explain it all (and maybe even solve a Rubik’s Cube or two) in this world-premiere musical.

“The Glory Man”

Oct. 1 to Nov. 14

Dennis Hassell’s play tells the story of the preacher and scholar Clarence Jordan, who founded a landmark integrated community in the 1940s and whose work paved the way for the start of Habitat for Humanity. Lamb’s leaders Robert Smyth and Deborah Gilmour Smyth (both deeply involved in Habitat projects) have known Hassell since the playwright was a Lamb’s staffer in the 1970s.